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About Washington Institute of Natural Medicine
The Washington Institute of Natural Medicine in Washington, D.C., offers alternative medicine to support clients’ overall wellness and improve their behavioral health. The institute employs doctors of natural health, naturopathy and integrative homeopathy as well as Reiki practitioners, lymphatic drainage practitioners, alternative medicine nurses, and natural health care interns.
Although the institute does not specifically offer substance use treatment, they offer therapies that are used in many substance use treatment facilities.
Detoxification and Energy Work
Detoxification using natural medicine amplifies the body’s ability to rid itself of natural toxins, such as toxins from substance use. Energy work increases your body’s ability to heal through practices such as reiki and acupuncture, both offered at the institute.
Hypnotherapy to Manage Addiction
Hypnotherapy is used to manage pain, anxiety, stress, and habits such as substance use. This therapy uses guided relaxation, focused concentration, and intense trance-like attention that allows you to explore your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Underlying Causes of Substance Use
Intuitive therapy helps us discover the causes of our physical and emotional health issues, which can drive someone to use substances. Treatment may include conventional medicine, acupuncture, herbal remedies, or energy work.
Active Participation in Your Recovery
Life coaching sees your life as physical health, emotional well-being, social connections, and spiritual life being interconnected and influencing each other. You will be encouraged to actively participate in healing through lifestyle changes and positive habits.
Meditation and Massage Therapy
In meditation therapy you will practice focused attention, mindfulness meditation, and breathing patterns to relieve stress, promote a positive mood, and improve health conditions. Massage therapy relieves pain and stress and promotes overall wellness.
Referral for Intensive Addiction Treatment
If you need more intensive substance use treatment, the institute can refer you to a local substance use treatment facility. Residential treatment is not offered at the institute.
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Self-pay involves paying for treatment out of your own pocket. You can use savings or credit, get a personal loan, or receive help from family and friends to fund your treatment. If you don't have insurance or your insurance plan doesn't cover a specific program, self-pay can help ensure you still get the care you need.
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Mental health rehabs focus on helping individuals recover from mental illnesses like bipolar disorder, clinical depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and more. Mental health professionals at these facilities are trained to understand and treat mental health issues, both in individual and group settings.
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Clinical Services
Hypnotherapy (aka guided hypnosis) can be used as a therapeutic modality to treat substance use, especially in terms of quitting smoking cigarettes (nicotine). Clinical hypnotherapists help clients turn their attention inward, accessing unconscious or subconscious material, and then make suggestions that are healthier for the individual. The process can help clients make deep, positive, and lasting changes, including ceasing addictive habits.
In individual therapy, a patient meets one-on-one with a trained psychologist or counselor. Therapy is a pivotal part of effective substance abuse treatment, as it often covers root causes of addiction, including challenges faced by the patient in their social, family, and work/school life.
Trauma therapy addresses traumatic incidents from a client's past that are likely affecting their present-day experience. Trauma is often one of the primary triggers and potential causes of addiction, and can stem from child sexual abuse, domestic violence, having a parent with a mental illness, losing one or both parents at a young age, teenage or adult sexual assault, or any number of other factors. The purpose of trauma therapy is to allow a patient to process trauma and move through and past it, with the help of trained and compassionate mental health professionals.
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Victoria K. Goldsten, HD, PhD, LMT, LPN, BSN
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3701 Connecticut Ave.
N.W. #1
Washington, DC 20008
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